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Re: Ah, Journalism
Posted By: Paul A., on host 130.95.128.51
Date: Friday, March 23, 2001, at 19:47:44
In Reply To: Re: Ah, Journalism posted by Kiki on Tuesday, March 20, 2001, at 11:24:58:

> We get 4 pages of comics daily, which is pretty nice, cause we get a lot of good ones...

:jealous:

We don't even get four pages on *weekends*.


Since people seem to be listing what comics they get...

In the daily version of our paper, we get one page of comics, with
- Beyond the Black Stump
- Calvin and Hobbes
- Cathy
- Ginger Meggs
- Modesty Blaise
- Wizard of Id
- Zits

('Beyond the Black Stump' and 'Ginger Meggs' are Australian strips. 'Ginger Meggs' is something of an institution; it's been running in Australian papers since 1921. It's not as good as it used to be.)

In the weekend paper, we get three pages of comics, but it's basically the same strips taking up more space, plus a few small strips too stupid to mention. Oh, and 'Garfield'.

'Dilbert' appears once a week, in the Computing & Technology section.


In addition to the newspaper, I supplement my comics diet with the following strips from the Internet:
- Citizen Dog
- Doonesbury
- Mandrake the Magician
- Mutts
- Non Sequitur
- Peanuts
- The Phantom

('Citizen Dog' and 'Doonesbury' both had weddings this week. I wonder if there's a virus going around.)


> Zits is the best thing around since Calvin & Hobbes, as far as I'm concerned. Somehow, the
> guys who write the strip do an amazing job of actually grasping a teenagers life...

It's okay, but it's never really grabbed me.
I don't think I fit the 'standard' teenage mould well enough to see my life in it.

> My best friend and I have laughed countless times at how similar our relationship is to
> Jeremy and Sara's.

My brother and his best friend are similar, only it's not Jeremy and Sara they see themselves in, it's Richandamy. :)

Paul